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...impressive display put on at the combine helped Ara launch himself past Ivy players like Brown’s Adom Crew—the conference player of the year and a first-team All-American who was selected in the fifth round and 51st overall by the Columbus Crew—and Yale’s Jay Alberts, who is only the fifth player in conference history to garner first-team All-Ivy honors all four years and was taken in the fourth round and 47th overall by the Kansas City Wizards...
...That Jaish-e-Muhammad has the capacity to launch sophisticated attacks on the President, possibly with insider help, is a situation partly of Musharraf's making. The government in Islamabad has long coddled militant Islamic groups, encouraging them first to help drive the Soviets out of neighboring Afghanistan and later to torment Indian troops in the part of the disputed state of Kashmir that is under Indian control. It was to this latter cause that Jaish-e-Muhammad was devoted. Official tolerance of these groups, and in some cases assistance to them, continued after Musharraf took power...
...call. The situation was simple: the wild-animal business in Guangdong was estimated to be worth anywhere from $100 million to $200 million a year; the economic impact of another SARS outbreak, however, was immeasurable. Zhong called on Jan. 4 and later that day an order was issued to launch a campaign to eradicate civets from the province's farms and markets. By the next morning, said Peng Shangde, deputy director of the Guangdong Forestry Department, "we were staffed and the trucks were rolling...
...Unlike Weinstein, Redford refused to talk to Biskind.) Still, Redford emerges long enough to double-cross his former protege, Steven Soderbergh, whose sex, lies, and videotape was shown in Park City in 1989, by plucking the movie Quiz Show out from under him. Redford sabotages his own efforts to launch a Sundance Cinemas chain by hooking up with a financially unstable partner and generally comes across as an indecisive visionary with a decidedly unhip sense of humor. (He always says, "Be funny, like Chekhov," according to one of Biskind's sources...
...hiatus of a dozen years, during which neither the U.S. nor the Soviet Union mounted missions to Mars, a spacecraft is once again on its way, opening a new era in the exploration of the earth's closest planetary neighbor. During the next decade or so, the Soviets will launch a series of increasingly sophisticated unmanned Mars probes that they hope will culminate in a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to the Red Planet by the year 2010 ... While the American space program has been crippled since the Challenger disaster in January 1986, Soviet cosmonauts have been gaining invaluable experience...